The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-08-19

precious handsful thus hardly won upon the
encroaching flames, and with this earthwork,
built handful by handful
KEPT BACK THE FOE
While this was going on, brave men crept
underneath the wrecked cars beneath the
fire and the wooden bars which held prison
ers so many precious lives, and with pieces
of board, and sometimes their hands, beat
back the flames when they flashed up along
side some unfortunate wretch who, pinned
down by a heavy beam, looked on helplessly
while it seemed as If his death by fire was
certain; and while tho fight was thus going
on, the ears of the workers were filed with
the groans of dying men, the lnguished en-
treaties of those whose death seemed certain
unless the terrible blaze could be extin-
guished, and the cries OF those too badly
hurt to care in what manner the end were
brought about, so only 1t would be quick. So
they dug up the earth with their hands, reCk-
less of the blood streaming out from broken
finger nails, and heaped it upon little mounds,
while all the while came the he%artrending
cry, For Gods sake don't let us burn to
death" But finally victory was won, the fire
was put out after four hours of endeavor,
and as its last spark died away a light came
up in the east to take their place, and dawn
CdulG upon Il hCGuG Oh nOEOE. hullG Iub lAub
had been going on men had been dying, and
there were not so many wounded to take out
of the wreck as there had been four hours be-
fore, But in the meantime the country had
been aroused; help had come from Chats
worth, Forest and Piper City, and as the
dead were laid reverenIy alongside of each
other, out in the corn field, there were ready
hands to take them into Chatsworth, while
CnFNA ~ tla rl,,yAl, ,r,,r, cpr;,I En Df,--
City. One hundred and eighteen was the
AWFUL POLL OF THE DEAD,
while the wounded number four times as
many. The full tale Of the dead cannol,
however, be told yet for days Chatsworth
'was turned into a morgue to-day. The town
hall, the engine house. the depot were all
full of dead bodies, While every house in the
little village had its quota of the wounded.
There were over 100 cOrpses lying in the
e~xtemporized dead houses, and every man
or woman was turned into an amatuer but
jealous nurse. Over in q lumber yard the
noise of hammerR and saws rang out in the
air and in it busy carpenters were making
rough COttins to carry to their homes the
dead bodies of the excursionists who, twelve
hours previous, had left their homes full OF
pleasurable expectations of the enjoyment
they were going to have during the vacation
which had begun. When the news Of the
disaster was first flashed over the wires,
prompt aid was at once sent DR.. Steele,
chief surgeon of the Toledo, Peoria & West
ern road, had come on at once in a special
train. and with him were two other surgeons
and their assistants. From Peoria also came
Doctors Martin, Baker, Flagloere and john
SON, and from every city whence the
unfortunate excuTsionists had come from
their physicians and friends hurried on to
help them. From Peoria had also came del !
egations of the Redmen and the Ancient
Order of United Workmen, a number of both
societies being on the Inflated train, and so
after 8 o'clock in the morning there were
plenty Of people TO do the work that needed
such prompt attention. In the town hall
was the main hospital, aud in it anxious rel
atives and sorrowing friends sat and, fam
ming gently the sufferers faces, queried the
attending surgeons as they bound up the
wounds, and insisted THAI ::5>zS must be
hope. Downin
THE DEAD HOUSES,
fathers, husbands, brothers, sisters, wives
and children tearfully inspected each face as
it was uncovered, and sighed as the features
were unknown, or cried out ~in.anguish when
the well remembered face. sometimes fear
fully mangied but yet recognizable, was M
covered, The entire capacity of the little
village was taxed, and kind-hearted women
drove in from miles to give their gentle min
istrations to the sufferers. No sooner had
the wreck occurred than a scene Of robbery |
began. A baad of miscreants, heartless
and with only criminal instincts was on
hand, and like the guerrillas who throng a
battle field the night after q conflict and
fitch from the dead the money which they
received for their meager pay, stealing even
the bronze medals, and robbing from the
children Of the heroes, and other worthless
emblems of their fathers bravery, so last
night did the human hyenas plunder the
dead from this terrible accident. and
take wen the shoes whlch covered their feet
Who these wretches are is not known.
Whether they were o band Of pickpockets
who accompanied the train, or some
robber gang who were lurking in the vicin-
ity AMI be said. The horrible suspicion |
exists, and there are many who give IL cred
ence. that the accident was o deliberately
planned case of train wrecking, that the
bridge was set on fire by miscreants VINO
hoped to seize the opportunity offered, and
the fact that the bridge was so far consumed
at the time the train came along, and the
added fact that the train was an hour and a
half late. are pointed out as evidence OF a
careful conspiracy. 1t seems hardly possible
that man could be so lost to all the ordinary
feelings which animstes the basest OF the
human race. but still men who will rob dead
men; who win
STEAL FROM THS DYING
and win plumber the wounded, held down
by the broken beams Of a wrecked car.
whose deGth by FIRE seemed imminent,
can do most anything which lie base,
and that ID what these fende in human form